美國(guó)高功率半導(dǎo)體激光器制造商——恩耐公司

公司收入：不詳

公司總部：華盛頓州溫哥華市

所屬行業(yè)：激光技術(shù)

成立時(shí)間：2000年

員工人數(shù)：450

????靈活和堅(jiān)韌不拔是創(chuàng)業(yè)家最重要的特質(zhì)，而斯科特?金尼兩者兼?zhèn)?。他曾在麥肯錫（McKinsey）擔(dān)任顧問(wèn)。2000年，他募集了大量風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資，成立了恩耐公司（nLight），生產(chǎn)用于改善光纖電信網(wǎng)絡(luò)的激光器。一年之后，全球電信市場(chǎng)崩潰。金尼辭退了員工，開(kāi)發(fā)出了半導(dǎo)體激光二極管（右）的新用途。目前，半導(dǎo)體激光二極管主要用于激光脫毛的應(yīng)用程序和戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)，用于干擾紅外線跟蹤式導(dǎo)彈。雖然恩耐公司沒(méi)有披露收入情況，但是，金尼稱，他的公司目前處于盈利狀態(tài)。而且，他還預(yù)計(jì)，銷售收入今年將上漲50%。市場(chǎng)研究機(jī)構(gòu)Strategies Unlimited的分析師湯姆?豪斯金稱，全球激光技術(shù)每年的產(chǎn)值約為9億美元，盡管市場(chǎng)趨于飽和，但還在以超過(guò)15%的速度增長(zhǎng)。他認(rèn)為，恩耐公司可以通過(guò)銷售更綜合的激光器系統(tǒng)和組件來(lái)不斷發(fā)展壯大。

????——理查德?麥吉爾?墨菲

nLight

Revenue: Not available

Headquarters: Vancouver, Wash.

Industry: Laser technology

Founded: 2000

Employees: 450

????Flexibility and tenacity are key entrepreneurial traits, and Scott Keeney has both in spades. In 2000 the former McKinsey consultant raised a boatload of venture capital to launch nLight, which made lasers designed to improve the performance of fiber-optic telecom networks. A year later the global telecom market collapsed. Keeney laid off employees and developed new uses for his semiconductor laser diodes (right), which today are employed in applications like laser hair removal and on fighter jets to confuse heat-seeking missiles. Though nLight doesn't disclose revenue, Keeney says his firm is profitable, and he expects sales to rise 50% this year. It competes in a crowded, roughly $900 million annual market, but one that's growing at more than 15%, according to analyst Tom Hausken of Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm. Hausken thinks nLight can expand by selling more complete laser systems as well as components.

????--R.M.M.